CENTER — A suspect has been arrested and two others are in custody in Alamosa following a home invasion and armed robbery in Center on Thursday, and another incident that occurred in Alamosa on Saturday, Center Police Chief Dale Meek texted Nov. 19.

Meek described two of the men arrested in the attacks as “locals.” The case also extends to criminal activity in Monte Vista, he said.

The Center home invasion took place Nov. 14 at 1 a.m. The two victims in that incident both were hospitalized. The male victim was severely beaten “almost to the point of torture,” Meek said, and was transported to Memorial Hospital in Colorado Springs.

A female victim sustained non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to Rio Grande Hospital in Del Norte for treatment.

“A lot of the credit for this goes to the assistant district attorneys and the district attorney,” Meek told the Center Town Board on Tuesday, during his police report. “They worked with me constantly, even though they are shorthanded and working on a murder trial.”

The incident in Alamosa on Saturday, Nov. 16, happened at 12:30 a.m.

During that incident, according to a story in the Valley Courier, Caleb McNeeley, 28 and Esmaralda Acosta, 20, suffered injuries they described to Alamosa Police Department officers as having been inflicted with a machete.

McNeeley incurred severe injuries to his left elbow and forearm and was transported to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Denver, a City of Alamosa news release reported. Acosta’s head and hands were injured during the attack and she was treated at San Luis Valley Health.

The victims both told police that three male parties assaulted them near an abandoned home in the 1400 block of Edison Avenue and left the scene in a white pickup truck.

Using the victims’ description of the suspects and their vehicle, Alamosa Police Department officers were able to locate and arrest the three suspects close to the location of the assault.

Alamosa police arrested Anthony Dominguez, 34, Alamosa, Antonio Cisneros, 20, Antonito and Martin Hernandez Orozco, 21, Albuquerque, N.M. The three men were charged with multiple felonies and misdemeanors, including burglarizing the abandoned home. All are being held at the Alamosa County Detention Center.

Two of the three suspects in the machete attack were later identified by a Center resident as two of three men who robbed his/her home Thursday. The third man was later arrested by Center Police, totaling four arrests connected to both incidents.

Chief Meek announced the arrest of the third suspect in the Center home invasion Tuesday, Nov. 19.

No more information will be released until the investigation is completed, he said.

Meek is asking any witnesses to the home invasion who have not yet spoken to Center Police to please contact Officer Ruybal at 719-754-2442.